Self-Guided Tours
Download our heritage and cemetery walks brochures for self-guided tours around Townsville.
For information about mobile walking trails including the Townsville Tours and Trails app, visit our Mobile Apps page.
Heritage Trails
These brochures cover a series of walking trails, designed to reveal Townsville's rich heritage.
The walks will help you experience the city’s diversity of historical architecture, lush tropical gardens and impressive array of natural attractions. They are filled with interpretive information and hundreds of photographic opportunities to acquaint you with social and cultural experiences that create lifetime memories.
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Civic Pride
The walk displays the consolidation of the westward movement to the city in conjunction with the expansion of insurance, commercial and banking institutions. -
Early Townsville
Reveals the city’s earliest port-related commercial precinct in the original ‘heart of the city’. -
South Townsville and Port
Tells the story of the relationship between the industrial and the residential aspects of this working class suburb.
West End Cemetery Trails
This is a series of trails that have been produced to enable visitors at the West End Cemetery to undertake self guided walks. Projects such as this provide the community with a better understanding of the city’s rich history, who the people were and what life was like.
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Life, Death and Memorialisation in Early Townsville
The focus of this trail is on the lives of some of Townsville’s most well-known individuals, recognising their important contribution to the development of the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -
Townsville Women
This brochure recognises the contribution by Townsville women to the development of the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In compiling this trail we have included stories of the lives of average Townsville women, not just those who were famous. -
Publicans Trail
The focus of this brochure concerns the lives of Townsville’s publicans and recognises the contribution of Townsville’s past publicans to the development of the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
